A/N: Hey... I am so sorry for being so late with this update. I've been busy with school, and I've actually not written that much more for this story lately. Updates from here on may be a little far between, but don't worry, this story is a high priority for me, and I would never give up on it ;)

Now, onwards to chapter 9 :D

Chapter 9

After arriving at the apartment they quickly sat down in the living room. Giles was sipping on his tea; Spike drank what Grimmjow assumed to be blood, judging from the scent of it, not that the shinigami had any idea. The rest of them were satisfied with soda or water. Grimmjow ran a hand through his hair for the fifth time that evening.
"Whenever you're ready, Xander," Buffy urged as she watched him put his glass of water down.
"First things first. I'm not called Xander anymore. It's Grimmjow Jaegerjaques now," he opened with, silencing the following questions with a raised hand.
"I want you to know I don't blame you for anything that happened. You didn't know, and there was nothing you could have done, so don't go beating yourselves up over it," he added with strict looks to his former best friends.
"I… You remember when Tony told you I was missing?" he asked, noticing their nods. None of them even reacted to him calling his father by name, though Dawn had to explain it to the shinigami, who had no idea who he was talking about.
"I wasn't," he simply said, a pointed stare stopping any further questions.
"My dear father lied to you… The night before he had had too much to drink and when I was late… he killed me,"
"What?" Buffy exclaimed
"That's impossible! You're standing right there! You're not dead!" Willow nearly shouted in panic.
"Let me continue. As you can see, I'm not exactly human anymore, am I?" he said, getting the girls to sit back down.
"I wandered around for a while as a ghost, none of you saw me… probably because of the hellmouth… then I changed. I was pulled through a garganta… a portal of sorts… Something must have gone wrong though, the hellmouth must've messed with the garganta somehow, as it's nearly three hundred years since that happened, yet it's only been a few months or something for you… My best guess is that it pulled me back in time somehow… I'll try to keep this brief. I was changed when I came there. I was a hollow, a soul devouring beast. Back then I didn't even look remotely human… You've probably seen a few of them around, shinigami like those guys usually take care of 'em, violent masked beasts with a gaping hole in their chest. I ate other hollow and eventually evolved into a stronger hollow, adjuchas, in the form of a panther. That's when my name came to mind. Then Aizen, a shinigami traitor approached me, offering power, and I accepted. He turned me into what I am now, giving me a more human appearance and this, a Zanpakuto… I'm an arrancar now, basically a hollow given the powers of a shinigami… I didn't remember my past life until a few weeks ago. I ditched Aizen and ran to the living world, where I stumbled across Ichigo, who took me in. That's where I've been for the past few weeks… Any questions?" he quickly explained, not really wishing to go into more detail. Buffy and company was stunned. The shinigami seemed more so, before Rukia spoke up.
"But why wouldn't Ichigo fight you immediately?" she asked. Grimmjow looked at the orange haired substitute shinigami and let him explain.
"I did, originally, but we reached an agreement instead. He told me he'd abandoned Aizen, and that he hadn't enjoyed working for him in the first place. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and invited him to stay with me, as my dad and sisters aren't home anyway. I figured that if he was lying it would be safer to keep him with me than to let him roam around unattended," the kid explained easily. Grimmjow had a feeling the kid was lying, as it hadn't really seemed like he had been that suspicious at the time, but he didn't really care either way. The black haired shinigami nodded and looked thoughtful for a while.
"Why didn't you tell us?" she asked.
"I know what the Soul Society will do if they find out… I didn't want to risk it," Ichigo said.
"So he's your new boyfriend then? That's why you didn't tell me who it was, right?" she looked like she was torn between swooning and being angry with the orange-head. Ichigo's cheeks turned slightly red and Grimmjow suppressed a smirk. Ichigo then nodded and was about to say something when Rukia interrupted him by getting so close to his face that they were practically hugging.
"So… You're the uke, right?" she said with an excited look in her eyes.
"The.. the what?" Ichigo was not the only one who was confused. All the Americans, Grimmjow, Giles and even Spike looked equally lost. The red haired shinigami was the only one who understood, and he simply looked exasperated.
"The uke! The bottom!" she explained and Ichigo's cheeks turned even redder as Spike burst out laughing.
"You really should stop reading those Yaoi-manga, Rukia…" Abarai stated with a sigh. Rukia shot him a look and ignored him.
"So? Who's the top?" she asked with excitement.
"Me!" both Grimmjow and Ichigo said at the same time. The others blinked in confusion, before Renji smirked.
"You can't both be topping. One of you is lying," he said with a wide grin. Spike walked over to the red haired shinigami with a shit-eating grin.
"I think I know which one too," he said. Renji looked at him, expectant.
"It's the whelp… err, that is, Grimmjow. If you look closely you can see the bruises after hands on his hips. Also, the bite-mark on his neck is a dead giveaway. No dominant creature would want to be marked like that," he explained. Grimmjow glared at him fiercely, thus showing that he'd hit the nail dead on.

Rukia once more spoke up, after taking several minutes to digest the fact that, not only was Ichigo dating an arrancar, but he was actually playing the part of the seme! He was the dominant one, while the powerful espada was his submissive! She cleared her throat, still blushing slightly.
"There's still some things that need an explanation though… How come you can see hollows and shinigami, and why would Aizen and his espada be after you?" she said, directing her gaze to Giles, expecting him to be the one to explain.
"When you grow up on the hellmouth, weird stuff is bound to happen," Grimmjow shrugged. Giles nodded sagely as he cleaned his glasses.
"Quite so… It just so happens that Buffy is the Slayer," he said and launched an explanation of the hellmouth, the slayer and the supernatural world. After the explanation was done he'd told them pretty much everything, including Dawn's origins. The two shinigami were pretty much shocked, Ichigo had already heard most of it from Grimmjow, so he'd spaced out as he let the arrancar sit a bit closer.
"But what exactly are you? Xan- no, Grimmjow called you 'shinigami', death gods, but what exactly does that entail?" Giles asked. Now it was Rukia's turn to explain. She used her drawings, and Ichigo commented on them, as usual, to which she responded by tossing the sketchbook at him. After a while they understood the basics of it, and Rukia looked at Ichigo.
"Ichigo is a bit different though…" she said hesitantly. At a nod from him, she continued.
"All other shinigami are either born in Soul Society or have died and had our souls sent there, but Ichigo is a living human. He had enough reiatsu to see spirits, clear as day, from when he was a child, and an incident gave him shinigami powers…" she then went on to explain how Ichigo became a shinigami and he soon took over to explain how he was now a visored.

"So basically, you're a shinigami with hollow powers, and he's a hollow with shinigami powers, right? There's not really that much of a difference then, is it?" Spike said. The shinigami and arrancar looked at him. That hadn't really occurred to them before.
"Either way, the whelp's on your side now, so it doesn't really matter what he is," he added nonchalantly. Grimmjow flipped him off.
"I'm not a whelp, fangless," he said.
"Who are you calling fangless, zeppo?" the blond replied.
"Who else would I call fangless?" the two kept trading insults back and forth until a confused Renji interrupted them.
"What do you mean by fangless?" he asked. Grimmjow grinned widely and easily kept the vampire trying to shut him up away.
"I mean, he's a vampire who was caught by the initiative, a military research facility. They put a chip in his brain, so now he gets major headaches whenever he tries to harm a human," he explained, taking great satisfaction in the fact that Spike was insulted.
"I'll have you know, I have a soul now!" the vampire said indignantly.
"Big deal, so does everyone else. Even murderers and rapists have souls. Hollows are souls," the arrancar pointed out. Spike grumbled, flipped him off and sat back down next to Buffy, who was stifling her giggles.
"So, she's the vampire slayer, but she's allied with a vampire?" the redhead asked. Grimmjow nodded.
"And from the scent of them, they're not just allies, if you get my drift," the way Buffy blushed showed him he was correct. Back when he was human he'd probably have scolded her and threatened Spike, but now, he really didn't have anything. He'd been a far worse and more volatile creature himself, so he had no right to complain. Besides, he didn't really hate the vampire anymore.

"Anyway… it's getting really late, and some of us have school tomorrow, and also don't want to be discussing her sister's sex life, so maybe we should get to bed?" Dawn suggested. Giles agreed, as Buffy was too appalled to do anything but gape at her little sister.
"Goodnight then," Ichigo said as he exited the apartment. Grimmjow followed, with Rukia right behind him. As Renji was about to close the door after himself, Dawn tapped him on the shoulder.
"Thank you for saving me…" she said and gave him a quick peck on the cheek before closing the door, leaving a shocked shinigami to be pulled away by his smaller, female friend.

A/N: So, just saying... next chapter will basically be PWP x) Hope you'll be looking forward to it ;) Reviews are always apreciated, and I try to reply to everyone, though I sometimes forget, if I do, I am sorry x)

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